Having and developing your own YouTube channel, especially one as niche as acoustic guitar playing, is quite they grind but the hard work doesn’t feel like the hard work, I was anticipating. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a lot of work and I can only imagine how much will need to be done as I grow but I enjoy it very much!
Uploading Video After Video
As of the writing of this post, I have published 157 YouTube shorts and videos; Mostly shorts but at that clip, I’m almost at 200 subscribers which is exciting. In most cases I have posted at least one a day every day for the past 3 months and lately it’s been two or 3 a day. My wife is amazed and wonders how I can keep it up at that clip but honestly it hasn’t been that hard. With 40 years of ideas in my brain that I’m finally able to get out and share with people, the ideas just flow. I usually record me jamming and noodling on the guitar and take the best clips for shorts but I make sure that it’s a quality clip; not mistake free but quality.
My Channel usually gets around 800 to 1k+ of views, 15 to 20 likes and few comments here and there. I feel that they do well on a small channel like mine because it’s authentic and not AI. I’m not miming the guitar playing over a produced track to make it look perfect. The viewers know its a human, a real human playing. I do my best not to upload the same content and by that I mean content that sounds the same. The clips are usually 8 to 20 seconds long. When I first started, the shorter the clip, the better. Now that I have a little bit of a following, I find that I can get away with longer clips from time to time. Longer means, 15 to 30 seconds and 20 seems to be the sweet spot.
Will The YouTube Well Run Dry?
I won’t be able to produce shorts at this clip every day forever. Eventually, I will need to come up with other ideas and guitar arrangements which I have already started. I have a series of videos called “Quick Licks” and “Quick Riffs” where I basically show off. I feel as if that series of videos have taken it’s course and I need to go a new direction which is to start producing long form videos which will be original works, arrangements and content featuring me talking to the camera. That last one makes me nervous but it’s about creating connection with your audience. In the next few months I’m planning to upload at least a new long performance videos it create a nice foundation of videos that have a better chance of being viewed over a course of months or even years instead of the YouTube short one to two days.
If you have visited my Youtube channel, drop a comment and let me know what you think. Ideas and constructive critiques are always welcome.
~Larry AKA “Mac5150”
https://www.youtube.com/@realmac5150
